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James.
Everything had been going so perfectly, and of course, I hadn’t expected to run into Katrine when we were at the restaurant.
The look in Becca’s eyes after Katrine had kissed me tore at my heart. I could see she was trying to play it off as if it wasn’t bothering her, but it was. I had no doubt about that. Becca wasn’t happy, and to be honest, neither was I.
As we pulled into my driveway, I sighed, not able to take the silence between us anymore.
“Look, Becca, I can tell you are upset,” I said, watching as her eyes turned towards me.
“I’m not upset. I’m okay,” she snapped.
Shaking my head though, I parked the car. “I know you aren’t happy about Katrine, but I want to assure you I have nothing going on with her.”
Laughter escaped Becca’s lips at my comment. “That’s not my business, James. What you have going on with that woman is your own private business. It has nothing to do with me.”
She didn’t waste another beat as she exited the vehicle and made her way towards the front door. I was speechless, though. I hadn’t expected her to reply with that, and quickly, my mood turned sour as I exited and followed her inside.
“What are you talking about?” I said once we were behind closed doors.
Stopping at the bottom of the stairs, she looked at me, cocking a brow, “I mean exactly as I said. It isn’t like we are a couple, James. Plus, I will be leaving in a few weeks to go back to school. This is simply fun while it lasts.”
There it was again. Her talking about leaving as if it was the easiest thing to do.
“So, you won’t care if I screw someone else while you’re in the next room?” I was trying to call her bluff, but without skipping a beat, she smiled at me.
“If that’s what makes you happy.”
“Becca, are you seriously going to stand here and act like the things that have been going on between us aren’t affecting you?” I replied with a stern glare.
Standing tall, she crossed her arms over her chest with a smile as she ran her tongue across her teeth, “Are you going to say they have been affecting you?”
Damn. There it was. The bomb dropped.
She didn’t wait for me to reply. Instead, she carried herself upstairs like the viper she was and disappeared from sight. Everything about her was addicting, and her entire attitude turned me on.
Taking a deep breath, I sucked on my teeth for a moment as irritation swirled within me. “No, they aren’t,” I mumbled to myself taking the high road as I strode up the stairs behind her.
If she wanted to act like this then so be it… I would remind her who she begged for.
James.
Waking the next morning, I had expected to see Becca’s smiling face next to me, but instead, I woke up alone. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting from her, but after the conversation we had the night before, it was clear I was unsure of what I wanted.
Sitting behind my desk at work, I tried to focus on the countless deals I had coming across my desk. There were a variety of things, and among them were the issues with Katrine’s father.
He was a ruthless Russian mobster I had gotten into business with when I was younger out of need for financial support. Our contract had recently been paid up, and no longer did I need to have ties with him–yet, he didn’t want to let business go.
“Mr. Valentino, you have a visitor,” Evette said through my phone, causing me to sigh.
I knew very well who it was and what was going to happen. There was no doubt that Sergie was here once more to force me to continue our business.
Something I wasn’t interested in doing.
“Let him in,” I replied with reluctance, watching as the door opened, and Evette’s smiling face came into view. Followed by a tall Russian with graying hair.
“Sergie,” I said, standing t as I gestured for him to take a seat. “It’s a pleasure seeing you again.”
“Is it? I had hoped we would be celebrating right now, but I can see that isn’t going to be the case, is it?”
Taking a deep breath, I shook my head and frowned. “I already explained I have no interest in extending our contract. We have had a wonderful past twenty years together, but I believe it’s time we go our separate ways.”
Sergie’s eyes stared back at me with amusement, and as he did, I couldn’t help but feel slightly nervous. No one ever dared say no to this man, and here I was stirring the pot.
“Tell you what,” he finally said after a moment, “let’s talk about something else that’s been on my mind.”
With hesitation, I situated myself in my seat, leaning back as I watched him. “What’s that?”
“My daughter, Katrine.”
I should have known this was where the conversation was going to go. His daughter was everything to him, and I should have known he was going to want me to be with his daughter. It wasn’t going to happen, though.
I wouldn’t get serious about that woman if he paid me.
“What about her?” I asked him.
A smirk lined his lips as he chuckled softly to himself. “We both know she can be a difficult girl. When she was younger, she lost her mother, you see, and I have raised her myself. So all these years of spoiling her have done nothing to help her mentality.”
We both chuckled at his comment, but I wasn’t sure what he was getting at. “She is a tiger, that is for sure. She knows what she wants, and she gets it.”
“Yes,” Sergie replied, “except when it comes to you.”
There it was. The smile he wore slowly slipped away, and instead, there was something sinister in his gaze.
“What about me? I don’t understand what your daughter has to do with me.”
Nodding, he took a deep breath. “She wants you, and you decided after you got what you wanted from her, you would just dismiss her. My little girl is heartbroken.”
“I see,” I replied, sitting up straight. “Well, as I told her from the beginning… I am not interested in a serious relationship. She knew this and agreed. I told her I didn’t want to see her anymore because I didn’t want her to get the wrong idea, and she didn’t want to accept that.”
Sergie nodded again, but even though I had explained myself, he didn’t seem to care.
“So you can use her and not care about her feelings?” he asked with a murderous gaze.
“No, that isn’t what I am saying at all. We slept together on and off for a few months. It wasn’t even consistent, and through that time, I have proof she had other lovers. Just none that were like me. I told her I was done, and she seemed fine when she left here.”
The conversation was going round and round in circles, and through it all, I could see he wasn’t going to let the issue go. It was becoming clear that me not extending our business wasn’t really the issue.
It, instead, was the issue I had with his daughter. One of which wasn’t his business.
“You’re missing the point, James,” Sergie replied. “She is unhappy, and that makes me unhappy.”
“So buy her something new…. Shopping spree, a trip overseas… She loves things like that.”